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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [280v] (565/739)
The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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502
No. 219— con Id.
Tehran to Astra bad, via Lar Valley, Firnzfcuh and Chashma-i-AU,
No.
of
stage.
N ames of stages.
Distances
IN MILES.
Tut; rmo
diate.
Total.
Fieuzkuh
28
97
A saean
36
133
Eemaeks.
One mile further Bagh-iUShali is reached, which is
only a garden belonging to the Shah, with a
few huts for the gardeners. The valley now
being traversed is covered with cultivation which
consists of corn and lucerne, also a few fruit
gardens near the villages.
Seven hours' march. Eoad goes for first five miles
along foot of the mountains to the village of
Saidabad, where there is a population of 30
families, when it winds into wild mountains of
soft crumbling soil for eight miles, after which
it descends to the river Delichai. This river
comes from near the Damavand mountain and
passes Hasanabad, and then it joins the Hable
Rud which goes to Khar.
From here the road winds deeper into the moun»
tains, which are covered with pine-trees, for
four miles, when the village Aminabad is
reached. This village is on a slope on the
mountains, and not so close to Firuzkuh as
marked on St. John's map. Also village Arja-
mand is not on the main road, but eight miles
behind Aminabad to the north. Koad goes for
another three miles up and down hills, when it
comes to the river Nim Rud, which flows into
the Hable Rud near Farahabad. About a mile
from the road down the river there is a village
called Haram Deh. Four miles further Lasun,-
a village of ten families, was passed. People come
here only in the summer for collecting the har
vest and go in the winter to Firuzkuh. The
country from here to Firuzkuh is more or less
cultivated and covered with chamans (meadows).
Firuzkuh is built at the foot of the mountains
and is the residence of the deputy governor,
who has jurisdiction over a large district.
Ten hours' march. For first six miles road goes
north-east along a rivulet coming from Gur Safed
passing village of Komen; then it passes the
Tang Sarenza. This valley is all covered with
corn-fields. At the other end of the Tang there
is an old fort in ruins situated on a hill. The-
country now loses much of its rocky appearance,
and it is broken into a variety of volcanic hills
of various colours. The valley is called Gur-
Safed, and it is 12 miles long. It is partially
cultivated and inhabited by the Heftari tribe,
who come here for the summer months to graze
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].
The information given for each route comprises:
- number of route;
- place names forming starting point and destination of route;
- authority and date;
- number of stage;
- names of stages;
- distance in miles (intermediate and total);
- remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.
An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.
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- 1 volume (367 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.
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